Job 17

World English Bible

Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), second edition

1“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.

1ΟΛΕΚΟΜΑΙ πνεύματι φερόμενος, δέομαι δὲ ταφῆς καὶ οὐ τυγχάνω.

2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

2λίσσομαι κάμνων, καὶ τί ποιήσας;

3“Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

3ἔκλεψαν δέ μου τὰ ὑπάρχοντα ἀλλότριοι. τίς ἐστιν οὗτος; τῇ χειρί μου συνδεθήτω.

4For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

4ὅτι καρδίαν αὐτῶν ἔκρυψας ἀπὸ φρονήσεως, διὰ τοῦτο οὐ μὴ ὑψώσῃς αὐτούς.

5He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.

5τῇ μερίδι ἀναγγελεῖ κακίας, ὀφθαλμοὶ δὲ ἐφ᾿ υἱοῖς ἐτάκησαν.

6“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

6ἔθου δέ με θρύλημα ἐν ἔθνεσι, γέλως δὲ αὐτοῖς ἀπέβην·

7My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

7πεπώρωνται γὰρ ἀπὸ ὀργῆς οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου, πεπολιόρκημαι μεγάλως ὑπὸ πάντων.

8Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

8θαῦμα ἔσχεν ἀληθινοὺς ἐπὶ τούτῳ, δίκαιος δὲ ἐπὶ παρανόμῳ ἐπανασταίη·

9Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

9σχοίη δὲ πιστὸς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ὁδόν, καθαρὸς δὲ χεῖρας ἀναλάβοι θάρσος.

10But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

10οὐ μὴν δὲ ἀλλὰ πάντες ἐρείδετε, καὶ δεῦτε δή, οὐ γὰρ εὑρίσκω ἐν ὑμῖν ἀληθές.

11My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

11αἱ ἡμέραι μου παρῆλθον ἐν βρόμῳ, ἐράγη δὲ τὰ ἄρθρα τῆς καρδίας μου.

12They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

12νύκτα εἰς ἡμέραν ἔθηκα, φῶς ἐγγὺς ἀπὸ προσώπου σκότους·

13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

13ἐὰν γὰρ ὑπομείνω, ᾅδης μου ὁ οἶκος, ἐν δὲ γνόφῳ ἔστρωταί μου ἡ στρωμνή.

14if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

14θάνατον ἐπεκαλεσάμην πατέρα μου εἶναι, μητέρα δέ μου καὶ ἀδελφὴν σαπρίαν.

15where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?

15ποῦ οὖν μου ἔτι ἐστὶν ἡ ἐλπίς; ἦ τὰ ἀγαθά μου ὄψομαι;

16Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

16ἦ μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ εἰς ᾅδην καταβήσομαι, ἢ ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐπὶ χώματος καταβησόμεθα;

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